Scott Walton gave a talk about how they use Salt, at their company Pebble. Slides can be found here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1q82GUdE-zHUlTSYJxkIdW79CcewO3-KXuBwPe9ir_aA/edit#slide=id.p Salt is a remote config management tool, similar to: Ansible, Puppet, Chef. It seems from talks with others at PyConUK Ansible and Salt were being described more favourably than Puppet and Chef. Either due to their complexity or through battle testing […]

Trouble at t’LeedsDataMill: Oompah.py ~ Big Data meets Big Brass (Nicholas Tollervey & Simon Davy) Leeds data mill – hackers of open data Played with footfall data represented as music Python created a Lilypod file – => 7am was a fav Tubor section Much jokes of a Dubstep/D&B version – When’s the next album out – lol

Notes taken during session at PyCon UK. Can use templates Steep learning curve. Then good Some hard coded configuration Can version control the Yum configuration that drives Jenkins, NB guide configuration can be lost or broken easily